Many accused Neymar of being greedy, many accused Mbappe of being greedy (quite rightly), but it looks like we have a champion: Messi.
What do you think of these numbers? This is absolutely Saudi Arabian level of payments and no adequate European club with non-corrupt management would ever sign such a contract.
Against the backdrop of these payments, Messi's tales of loyalty to the club look like a joke. He actually destroyed Barcelona, which fell into a financial crisis (by the way, they still pay him) and currently lost Olmo due to financial problems.
Lionel Messi should not be blamed in any way for the financial chaos that has befalling Barcelona because despite that the club was paying him handsomely, he also made a lot of money for the club even more than the club spent on him and it was even confirmed by the club's president after Lionel Messi's exit in 2021. And besides, Lionel Messi's impact to Barcelona cannot be commensurate with the amount the club was paying him since he joined the senior team. The club's president, Joan Laporta said in 2021 that Messi generated more than 1.2 billion Euros for Barcelona since 2018 which was more than x2 of what the club was paying him then. Barcelona should just accept that the financial crisis that has befalling them is as a result of poor financial management after the COVID and not put it on Lionel Messi. Besides, Lionel Messi worth any amount the club paid him or is still paying him because he brought the team to light during his reign in Barcelona.